Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-12
RISK OF TEMPTATIONS

"ith OG lhhI IONo
which throng every human pathway
Would you have them cross the Jordan
three times in addition to crossing it
already, and cross it again tn greet
YOU now, and then cross back after
ward? For certainly you would not
want to keep them forever u of heav-
en-. Ii they had lived forty or fifty
years longer would they have been
safeP Perhaps so-perhaps not.
pause, and weep not for the freed from
pain,
But that the sigh OF love would pull them
back again"
ask a question, and there seems to
come back the answer in heavenly
echo. What! will you never be sick
againP' Never sick--again." What!
will you never be tired again?' Never
interchangeable" What! Will YOU
never weep againP' "Never-weep-
again" What! will you never die
againp' '.Never-die-again." Oh.
We army of departed kindred, we hail
you from bank to bank! Wait for us
when the
JORDAN OF DEATH
shall part for us. Come down and
meet us half way between the widowed
banks Of earth and the palm groves of
heaven.
O Jordan's stormy banks ! stand.
And cast a wistful eye
To Cauaan's fair and happy land.
Where my possessions lie.
., the transporting, rapturous scene
That rises on my sight.
Sweet fields arrayed in living green,
And rivers OF delight"
But there is ~ step still in advance
suggested by this subject If this re-
ligion of Christ is SO important in life,
and SO important in the last hours o
life. how much more important it will
be in the great eternity, need not
stand here and argue it. There is
something within your soul that says
now, while speak: II am immortal;
the stars shall die, bat | am I'M
mortal" You feel that your existence
on earth is only a small piece of your
being. 1t is only a mile mp to the
grave, but il is ten thousand miles be-
yond. The slab Of the tomb is only
the milestone on which we read of
infinite distance yet to be travelled.
The world itself will grow old and die
The stars Of our night will burn down
in their sockets and expire. The sun.
like spark struck from an anvil, will
flash and 90 ont. The winds will utter
their last whisper, and ocean heave its
last groan; but you and | viii live for
ever!
GIGANTIC-IMMOKTAL
Mighty to suffer or enjoy. Mighty TO
love or hate. Mighty to oar or to
sink. Then. what will be to us the
store. the shop. the office, the applause
of the world, the scorn of our enemies.
the things that lifted us up. and the
things that pressed us DOWN What
to John Wesley are All the mobs
that howled after himp What
to Voltaire are all the nations
that applauded him? What to Paul
now, the dungeons that chilled him?
What to Latimer now, the flames that
consumed himp All those who through
the grace of Christ reach that land.
will never be disturbed. None to- dis
pute their throne. they shall reign for
ever. But. alas. for those who have
made no preparation for the future!
When the sharp-shoa hoofs of eternal
disaster come up painting and swift to
90 over them, how will they contend
WITH horses? And when the waves Of
their wretchedness rise up. white and
foamy, under the swooping Of eternal
storsAs. and the pillows become nor
wratbful and dash more high, oh.
what will they do "amid the swelling
of .JOrdanp'